Pyotr Mikhailovich Samoilenko

Pyotr Samoilenko
Player information
Full name	Pyotr Mikhailovich Samoilenko
birthday	7th February 1977
place of birth	Uchquduq, Soviet Union
size	185 cm
position	Point guard
Club information
society	Spartak Primorye
league	Superleague Russia
Jersey number	99
Clubs as active
0000–1995 Shakhtar Donetsk 1995–1996 Spartak Luhansk 1996–1998 BK Stroitel Samara 1998–2007 UNICS Kazan 2007–2008 MBK Dynamo Moscow 2008–2013 UNICS Kazan Since 2014 Spartak Primorye 0
National team
2000-2008	Russia

Pyotr Mikhailovich Samoilenko medal table
Basketball (men)
Russia
European Championship
gold	2007 Spain

Pjotr ​​Michailowitsch Samoilenko Russian Пётр Михайлович Самойленко ; (Born February 7, 1977 in Uchquduq , Uzbek SSR ) is a Russian basketball player . Samoilenko joined the first Russian league in 1996 and played for UNICS from Kazan from 1998 to 2013 with a one-year break . With this club he was title winner in the FIBA Europe League in 2004 and in the ULEB Eurocup in 2011 and overall Russian runner-up. With the Russian national team, he took part in four European basketball championships and the 2008 Olympic Games . In 2007 he was European basketball champion with Russia.

Club career

After Samoilenko had previously played in Ukraine , he joined the Samara basketball club , previously known as Stroitel , at the age of 19 in 1996 . With this club he won the bronze medal of the Russian championship in 1997 and 1998 after a third place. He then switched to UNICS from Kazan . After a fifth place in 1999, a third place in 2000 UNICS reached under new coach Stanislav Jerjomin , who had previously been national coach of the year, for the first time later in 2001, the final series of the Russian championship, which like a 2002 against Ural Great Perm lost went. In the European Saporta Cup 2001 they reached the semi-finals, in which they lost to the later title holder GS Marousi from Greece . In the following, last staging of this competition in 2002, they lost against the later title holder Montepaschi Siena in the quarter-finals.

In 2003 Samoilenko won with UNICS the last North European Basketball League in the final against Lietuvos rytas Vilnius . In addition, they won the Russian Cup final in 2003 against PBK CSKA Moscow and thus the first national title, but lost in the Russian championship, this time in the semifinals, again against Ural Great and achieved another third place. In 2004 they turned the tide and beat Ural Great narrowly in the semifinals, but lost the final series against the again dominating CSKA Moscow. Instead, they won their first international title in the FIBA Europe League in 2004 at the Final Four tournament in their own hall , after defeating the Ural Great in the semifinals and this time in the final GS Marousi. In two clear victories with more than 20 points difference each, Samoilenko shone as a playmaker with seven and nine assists in the Final Four for UNICS, who had to compete without their legionnaire LaMarr Greer .

In the 2004/05 season Samoilenko lost with UNICS as the defending champion in the quarter-final play-offs of the FIBA ​​Europe League against national rivals BK Chimki , against whom they were victorious in the bronze medal series of the Russian championship and in the cup semi-finals. In the championship they lost in the semi-final series against Dynamo Moscow and in the cup final against double winners CSKA Moscow. When MBK Dynamo won the ULEB Cup 2005/06 title , they lost after a strong preliminary round with only one defeat in ten games in the round of 16 against Lottomatica Rome , which were coached by Svetislav Pešić . In the Russian championship they lost the semi-final series against the renewed double winner CSKA Moscow. Then coach Jerjomin left the club. In the following season, the playing times of Samoilenkos, who had previously come from the bench as a "back up" guard, fell to less than 20 minutes per game in European competition. In the ULEB Cup 2006/07 they lost the semi-finals against eventual title winners Real Madrid . In the Russian championship and cup they reached the finals, in which ZSKA was able to get the third double in a row. After the successful European Championship in the Russian national team, Samoilenko moved in the 2007/08 season to MBK Dynamo in Moscow, who had signed Svetislav Pešić as coach. In the ULEB Cup 2007/08 they reached the newly introduced Elite Eight tournament of the eight best teams, in which they were eliminated in the semifinals against Pešić 'former club Akasvasyu Girona . In the Russian championship they lost in the semifinals against master CSKA, who lost the cup final against runner-up against BK Chimki, and finally reached the third bronze medal place.

After just one season at MBK Dynamo, Samoilenko returned to UNICS Kazan in 2008. From Samoilenko's point of view, the way to the championship was again blocked by CSKA in the 2008/09 season in the semi-final series. In the 2009 cup final they won the title for the second time after beating Samoilenko's former club MBK Dynamo in the final. In 2010 they lost the cup final under coach Valdemaras Chomičius as defending champion against double winners CSKA as well as the final in the first-ever VTB United League , in the Russian championship they lost the semi-final series against runner-up BK Chimki this time. For the 2010/11 season Yevgeny Paschutin took over the coaching position, who came from master CSKA and had played with Samoilenko from 2000 to 2002. However, they were eliminated in qualifying for the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 and instead played again in the ULEB Eurocup , as the ULEB Cup has been called since 2009. However, the 2010/11 edition was won after clear victories at the Final Four tournament and secured the second international title as well as the first-time participation in the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague .

The Russian championship was held for the first time in the 2010/11 season in the Professionalnaja Basketbolnaja Liga (PBL), which had replaced the old Superleague, and in the 2010/11 PBL UNICS initially presented itself strongly, won the main round in front of CSKA and drew as First in the play-offs. In the semi-final series they lost after two opening wins in five games against runner-up BK Chimki and came third again as in the VTB league. The bronze medal in the Russian championship was for Samoilenko the fourth in a row and the ninth in total alongside four runner-up championships in 2001, 2002, 2004 & 2007. In the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 it was enough to move into the quarter-final play-offs, in which they were eliminated in three games against FC Barcelona . While in the VTB United League 2011/12 they came back to the final against the victorious CSKA Moscow, they weakened in the PBL 2011/12 , in which they missed the final round and only finished fifth in a placement round. After coach Paschutin left the club, you could not improve in the PBL 2012/13 either. In the VTB United League 2012/13 they failed in the quarterfinals because of Pashutin's new team Lokomotive Kuban Krasnodar . In pan-European competitions they failed at the beginning of the season in qualifying for the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 , so that they started again in the 2012/13 Eurocup . Here they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against the Valencia Basket Club , while Pashutin's Lokomotive Kuban won this competition.

After Samoilenko left UNICS Kazan in 2013 at the age of 36, his active career seemed to be over, but at the beginning of 2014 he played in the Superleague for Spartak Primorye from Vladivostok on the Pacific , which was below the VTB League after the PBL was discontinued . where he plays with the former national team colleague Nikita Morgunow , who is two years older than him .

National team

At the pre-Olympic test tournament in 2000, which Russia won, Samoilenko was used for the Russian national basketball team under coach Yerjomin, who subsequently became his club coach, for a few minutes, but was not accepted into the final Olympic squad. Also at the EM 2001 , in which Russia took fifth place, it was only used sporadically. At the EM 2003 under a new coach, he was then an integral part of the rotation of the players. The national team lost the quarter-finals again, this time against the previously undefeated French and ended up in eighth place, thus failing to qualify for the 2004 Olympic Games .

At the EM 2005 they started with two convincing first wins, but lost the quarter-finals again, this time against the eventual European champions Greece . After further defeats in the placement round, they finished eighth again and missed qualifying for the 2006 World Basketball Championship . The new national coach David Blatt nominated Samoilenko again for the EM 2007 . Here you won all preliminary round games and in the newly introduced intermediate round you only lost the game against hosts Spain , but this clearly with more than ten points difference. In the final they met again on the title favorites Spain and won in the final minute with one point difference, thus securing Russia's first title win after the collapse of the Soviet Union , whose national team had become European champions 13 times. At the following Olympic Games in 2008 Samoilenko was also in the squad, but was only used sporadically by coach sheet. There the reigning European champion disappointed and retired prematurely after only one victory in the preliminary round.

Web links

• Samoylenko, PETR - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Petr SAMOYLENKO (RUS) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• N 9 Petr Samoilenko - player profile on the pages of UNICS Kazan
• Pyotr Samoylenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jon Ingram: FIBA Europe League Final Preview - UNICS Kazan v. TIM Maroussi. FIBA Europe , April 23, 2004, accessed November 2, 2011 .